Leeds Hospitals Charity

Registered charity 1170369 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS CARES, LEEDS HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

To further any charitable purpose or purposes relating to the general or any specific purposes of Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust or the purposes of the National Health Service.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in charitable funds of £516,000 for the year, resulting in total funds of £21.12 million. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £3.43 million, which is below the stated target of £4.5 million, though the trustees remain confident in the charity's ability to meet its obligations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10492128
• Trading subsidiary: LHC ENTERPRISE LIMITED Companies House 13438357

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leeds Hospitals Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Esther Wakeman — Chief Executive (source)
• Eve Hartrick — Director of Finance & Corporate Services (source)
• Jake Hornsbury — Director of Retail (source)
• Rebecca Baldaro-Booth — Director of Grants and Impact (source)
• Sarah Griffin — Director of Engagement (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Breast Cancer Support — “Breast Cancer Support has donated more than £46,000 in funding to support a pioneering digital health project aimed at improving care for pa…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FEARE, Leicia Louise — director, appointed 23/11/2025on trustee list
• GRAY, Simon Andrew — director, appointed 23/11/2025on trustee list
• ALI, Razwan, Dr — director, appointed 21/10/2025on trustee list
• COLMAN, David John — director, appointed 21/10/2025on trustee list
• KILDARE, Antony Patrick — director, appointed 01/08/2025on trustee list
• SURYAWANSHI, Lalit — director, appointed 20/06/2024on trustee list
• LYONS, Charlene — director, appointed 20/06/2024on trustee list
• SKELLEY, Gemma Lucy — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• GLAISTER, Lauren Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/09/2021on trustee list
• BERRIDGE, David, Dr — director, appointed 14/06/2021on trustee list
• DAVIES, Mark Craig — director, appointed 03/06/2021on trustee list
• DOHERTY, Cassandra, Dr — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list
• OADE, Yvette Alison, Dr — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 43.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antony Kildare
• CHARLENE LYONS · trustee of 1 other charity
• David John Colman
• Dr Cassandra DOHERTY
• Dr David BERRIDGE
• Dr Razwan Ali
• Dr Yvette OADE
• Gemma Lucy SKELLEY
• Lalit SURYAWANSHI
• Lauren GLAISTER
• Leicia Louise Feare
• Mark Davies
• Simon Andrew Gray

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• CHARLENE LYONS — trustee here and at THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT LEEDS

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRADFORD HOSPITALS CHARITY.

• BRADFORD HOSPITALS CHARITY income £357k
• Harrogate Hospital and Community Charity, supported by Friends of Harrogate Hospital income £599k
• NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS CHARITY income £9.5m
• KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL CHARITY income £5.1m
• THE MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND RELATED CHARITIES income £1.1m
• RAISING HEALTH income £345k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.